Open AccessAdult Learning, Tertiary Education Policy in New Zealand and the Future
Author(s) -
Nick Zepke
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
new zealand annual review of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1178-3311
pISSN - 1171-3283
DOI - 10.26686/nzaroe.v0i12.1429
Subject(s) - declaration , context (archaeology) , politics , government (linguistics) , tertiary level , political science , higher education , public administration , economic growth , sociology , pedagogy , psychology , mathematics education , geography , law , economics , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology
This article traces ideas about adult learning from Unesco’s Hamburg Declaration (1997) to the Labour government’s Tertiary Education Strategy (2002) and speculates how these ideas might fare over the next five years in a policy context dominated by “third way” politics. It is divided into three sections. In the first, the Hamburg Declaration’s Agenda for the Future is discussed in the broader framework of thinking about adult learning. In the second, the themes from the Agenda for the Future are used to analyse the emerging strategies for tertiary education in New Zealand. In the final section it is suggested that the “third way” future envisioned by the Strategy is beset with economic, social and cultural tensions.